By meeting the challenges of the prairie’s harsh climate and poor farming conditions, homesteaders eventually settled 50% of America’s urban areas, or more than 10 million acres. 50% of America’s West Coast, or 35 million acres. 20% of America’s East Coast, or more than 5 million acres. 10% of all American land, or more than 270 million acres.

each played a major role in ending the cold war.

this act gave the federal government the power to relocate any native in the east to territory west of the mississippi river.

superior technology and improved medical knowledge to foster imperialism. quinine enabled europeans

to survive tropical diseases and venture into the mosquito-infested interiors of africa and asia. the combination

of the steamboat and the telegraph enabled the western powers to increase their mobility and to quickly respond

to any situations that threatened their dominance. the rapid-fire machine gun also gave them a military advantage

and was in convincing africans and asians to accept western control. the following table summarizes the

causes of the new imperialism:

causes of new imperialism

economic military/political humanitarian/religious technological

need for markets need for military bases white man’s burden new medicine

raw materials national security spread of christianity new weapons

source of investments source of

pride—nationalism

social darwinism

(superiority of western

society)

transportation

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those who allied with france gained land and power.